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Mario Negri broke down and was on the verge of tears in full session in the Chamber of Deputies

2020-10-28T18:12:15.932Z


The head of the Together for Change Interblock was moved when he read the Preamble to the National Constitution and his peers present in the room applauded him standing.


10/28/2020 15:00

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 10/28/2020 3:05 PM

The head of the Juntos por el Cambio interblock, Mario Negri from Cordoba,

broke down with emotion and was on the verge of tears

this Wednesday when he participated in the tribute that was held in the Lower House for the 37 years of the recovery of democracy.

The radical referent first recalled the context faced by the government of the late President Raúl Alfonsín.

He recalled that it was a "

divided Argentina

" in which "it was at stake that they did not take away a place to live from us."

"There is a very polarized world. You look at what is happening in many countries of the world, the negative effects of globalization also hit democracy. The levels of growth of societies were losing quality and democracy has also suffered for not be able to satisfy all of that, "he said.

It is nonsense for some, it is nostalgia for others, but I like to hear it: "To constitute the national union, strengthen justice, consolidate inner peace, promote general well-being and ensure the benefits of freedom ..." #Alfonsin # 30OctoberDe1983 pic.twitter.com/ExzTL1ctGF

- Mario Raúl Negri (@marioraulnegri) October 28, 2020

During his presentation at the venue, in the framework of another mixed session in the lower house, Negri also cited the famous phrase of Alfonsín that states that "with democracy you eat, cure and educate yourself", and then warned: "The The meaning was that if in democracy we did not manage to educate, heal and eat, democracy would begin to falter. "

Followed, he warned that in the face of this situation "other remedies appear in the name of supposed authoritarianisms to channel people's anxiety or in the name of political outsiders against politics."

"And that is what is happening today in theories of some presidents, such as in Turkey, which maintains that democracy is not a liberal game of institutions but rather a hierarchical system where what counts as the supreme good is the popular sovereignty that gives you a higher right over institutions ", he exemplified.

For this reason, Negri remarked that "it is

not enough to remember"

the return of the democratic system because, he warned, currently "

democracy is hacked

by models and systems in a global world where people also win the streets, social networks bring people together and where the simplification of the policy between the demand and who promises the solution is going at an immense speed and we have to rethink it ".

"Democracy without rights deteriorates. And if even in democracy we only give the right and do not exercise the fullness of democracy, the rights of the minority and the division of powers are also weakened. That is our obligation, whoever wins, having alternation, so that democracy can one day end poverty, inequality and guarantee education for all, "he added.

And then Negri broke down emotionally reading the Preamble to the National Constitution.

"It is nonsense for some, it is nostalgia for others, but the truth is that I like to listen to it a lot as the Peronists like to listen to other things, but this is what all Argentines like," he anticipated.

Followed, with his voice already broken, he pronounced: "Strengthen Justice, consolidate inner peace with general well-being and ensure the benefits of freedom."

Most of those present in the room applauded him standing.

PJB

Source: clarin

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